The Republican Attorney General of Texas has filed a lawsuit against a New York doctor who mailed abortion pills to a woman in the southern state. Texas has some of the toughest laws restricting abortion in the country, and the case pits state laws regulating the procedure against each other. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed the civil suit on Thursday against Margaret Carpenter, the New York-based founder of the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine.
The attorney general’s office said Carpenter provided a 20-year-old Texas woman with “abortion-inducing drugs that ended the life of an unborn child and resulted in serious complications for the mother.” “Texas laws prohibit a physician or medical supplier from providing any abortion-inducing drugs by courier, delivery, or mail service. “No physician may treat patients or prescribe Texas residents medicine through telehealth services unless the doctor holds a valid Texas medical license,” it said.
Carpenter is not a licensed physician in Texas. Texas is seeking an injunction against Carpenter barring her from illegally practicing medicine in the state and from prescribing abortion pills to Texas residents. He is also seeking a $100,000 fine for each violation.
“In Texas, we treasure the health and lives of mothers and babies, and this is why out-of-state doctors may not illegally and dangerously prescribe abortion-inducing drugs to Texas residents,” Paxton said. Democratic-controlled New York has passed a so-.
